Ben Smith and Barack Obama

Barack Obama: The 2015 edition spoken aloud by Barack Obama to a newly anointed Republican Congress unwilling to pass so much as a box of chocolates from this Democratic president, let alone new law appears to have marked a turning point, according to Toronto Star. Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, captured the mood in a tweet alluding to the debate amongst his own staff on whether we have to cover no-hope proposals that exist solely to be written about and For years, reality has been stalking the American State of the Union address, with the annual presidential ritual threatening to buckle under the weight of its sheer meaninglessness. Even before the pomp and circumstance was underway Tuesday night, the Washington press corps was well into an unprecedented deconstruction, with many questioning its purpose and others pointing to the drip-drip-drip diminishing audience for the State of the Union as evidence the whole charade should be mothballed forever. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.